120g Acrylic Acropora Addiction (1 Viewer)

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Well I don’t care what you say - it’s beautiful!

Aww thanks Chris!

 

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UGHHHH when you think you’ve just had a persistent bit of cyano but it’s actually dinos that will knock you back a bit. Welp it hasn’t gotten worse really in 2 months so not gonna go crazy with changes. Probably just start dosing actual nitrate as phosphates are good at .05-.1

Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw at the wall and see if it sticks it seems.

 

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Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw at the wall and see if it sticks it seems.

I did get them under the microscope and confirm. And yes I have some detritus under the rocks in my sump for sure and in the sand as I can’t siphon nearly as much as I would like. I really need more detrtivores…